David McMahan is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Franklin & Marshall College in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA. The book is a superb scholarly, sociological evaluation of modern Buddhism. The reader will learn not only about different forms of Buddhism but also about methodologies to investigate and reflect on the social phenomena of religion.

"I regard the brain as a computer which will stop working when its components fail. There is no heaven or afterlife for broken down computers; that is a fairy story for people afraid of the dark.”
--Stephen Hawking (physicist) (source)

"The kind of people we need in Washington won't go to Washington."
--Thomas Sowell (economist)
"Think twice before you think."
--ee cummings (poet)